The event will take place on Friday, February 20, 2026, between 14:00 and 18:30 at the Ledra Palace Hotel – Nicosia. The conference will feature two panel discussions with participants from Cyprus and ...

The 2025/2026 edition of the WPS Index ranks 181 countries. It shows that Denmark continues to lead the ranking, while ...

Dorward, Nick & Kristian Hoelscher (2026) Urbanisation and the political demography of African cities, *World Development * 202 (107344).

Artificial intelligence (AI) is able to perform complex tasks such as visual perception, recognition of meaning in text and decision making. The paper suggests some ways AI can help to strengthen the ...

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2022 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2022, 55 state-based conflicts were recorded in 38 countries, and 8 ...

As China emerges as a leading power in artificial intelligence (AI), its views on the ethical use of AI in warfare are increasingly consequential for global security. Yet these perspectives remain ...

PRIO participated in Arctic Frontiers 2026, the annual multi-stakeholder conference held in Tromsø, bringing together researchers, policymakers, industry actors, civil society, and Indigenous ...

The long-cherished Russian ambition of being a peer competitor to the United States is incompatible with the reality of new world power contests. The main adversary for Vladimir Putin’s Russia is, in ...

Putin is caught between the crippling cost of staying the war course and the incalculable risks of signing a deal on ceasing the hostilities but continuing confrontation with Europe, to which Ukraine ...

Erdal, Marta Bivand (2026) Integrering og migrasjonsrelatert mangfold [Integration and migration-related diversity], in David Jordhus-Lier & Kristian Stokke, eds, Samfunnsgeografi: Perspektiver og ...